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Natural and Artificial Budgets: Accounting for Goethe's Economy of Nature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

Myles W. Jackson
Myles W. Jackson
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Department of the History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania
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This article explores the relationship between Goethe's administration of the duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and his investigation of nature. The notion of the budget was crucial to both enterprises. In Goethe's morphological and mining works, nature's budgets were a heuristic tool by which one could elucidate natural processes. Goethe applied his epistemological approach of investigating nature to the realm of social order. Law, order, balance, and budget formed the basis of Goethe's financial reform of the duchy. He tried, unsuccessfully, to construct artificial budgets, which were intended to mirror natural budgets to guide his plans of reform.

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Science in Context , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1994 , pp. 409 - 431
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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